Hey all,
Odd question I know, but after todays bath of upgrades to my Arch system, which included an upgrade to 2.6.31.3, and ATI driver 6.12.4.
Previously, I got around 3000fps on glxgears with my X1900XTX, now I get just shy over 5000. Meaningless figure as 3000 is more than enough!
But, Firefox is suddenly rediculously snappy, I close a browser tab and immediately see the tab to the right on screen. Youtube videos play smoothly, in HD!
My load average is currently 0.00 rather than over 1 or even 2, thats with Firefox running with too many tabs for my own good and Spotify streaming.
Is this performance increase related to the xf86-video-ati driver, or something unrelated? I've disabled KMS for the timebeing while waiting for dri etc 7.6 to be pushed to the Arch repo's, but this massive performance increase in the meantime is most welcome!
Odd question I know, but after todays bath of upgrades to my Arch system, which included an upgrade to 2.6.31.3, and ATI driver 6.12.4.
Previously, I got around 3000fps on glxgears with my X1900XTX, now I get just shy over 5000. Meaningless figure as 3000 is more than enough!
But, Firefox is suddenly rediculously snappy, I close a browser tab and immediately see the tab to the right on screen. Youtube videos play smoothly, in HD!
My load average is currently 0.00 rather than over 1 or even 2, thats with Firefox running with too many tabs for my own good and Spotify streaming.
Is this performance increase related to the xf86-video-ati driver, or something unrelated? I've disabled KMS for the timebeing while waiting for dri etc 7.6 to be pushed to the Arch repo's, but this massive performance increase in the meantime is most welcome!
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